This doctor believes that low glucose levels in the blood lead to hallucinations.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

People with type 1, or juvenile,diabetes must keep a watchful eye on their blood glucose levels because their pancreases are not working normally.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The pancreas is an organ that in healthy people secretes insulin to convert glucose into energy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Researchers adjusted their computer algorithm to the slower insulin absorption rate and on a repeat experiment blood glucose was tightly controlled in all of the subjects.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The artificial pancreas kept glucose levels within the target range for six participants.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"because the fat mass can induce changes that are metabolically bad, like an increase in glucose or insulin, also an increase in fat,blood fats, like triglycerides or cholesterol."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

"The insulin pumps exist, the continuous glucose monitors exist.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The computer program continuously takes in data from a glucose monitor inserted into a patient's vein and calculates the dose of artificial insulin that needs to be infused through an insulin pump.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"What we found was that high blood pressure,smoking, overweight/obesity and high blood glucose account for five years of loss of life expectancy in men and about four years in women at the national level."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The pump developed by researchers is a double pump - in addition to insulin, it automatically secretes glucagon, a hormone that taps glucose reserves in the liver, raising blood sugar levels when they get too low, a condition called hypoglycemia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15